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Sunday, 25 January 2015

NEWS: A Very Argentinian Mistery

Photo via The New Yorker

John Lee Anderson writes in The New York Times "A Very Argentinian Mistery" a brief chronicle about the -indeed very Argentinian- murder of Alberto Nisman: "On Sunday, January 18th, Natalio Alberto Nisman, a fifty-one-year-old
federal prosecutor, was found shot dead inside his locked Buenos Aires
apartment. There was a gun nearby, and a bullet wound to his head.
Nisman had spent the past decade investigating Argentina’s worst-ever
terrorist attack—the 1994 car bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos
Aires, the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, or AMIA,
which killed eighty-five people. A few days earlier, he had released a
report alleging that President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and
Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman had engaged in a massive cover-up of
Iran’s role in the AMIA case in exchange for trade
concessions. In order to investigate the case, Nisman also repudiated a
2013 memorandum of understanding signed by Timerman and his Iranian
counterpart. He had been due to present evidence in the National
Congress on Monday, the day after his body was discovered." Read full article in The New Yorker. E.T.P. 4'

Jonathan Gilbert and Simon Romero also report the puzzling death of Nisman in The New York Times. "Police
sentries guarded the federal prosecutor’s luxury high-rise building.
His door on the 13th floor had been locked from the inside, and a gun
with a spent cartridge was found on the floor near his body. There was
no suicide note.Just one day earlier, on Saturday, the prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, said, “I might get out of this dead.” Read full article in The New York Times. E.T.P. 6'